Provided by Pamela J. Sams, CRPC, NABBW’s Retirement Planning Associate
When our parents retired, living to 75 amounted to a nice long life, and Social Security was often supplemented by a pension. The Social Security Administration (SSA) estimates that today’s average 65-year-old female will live to age 86.6. Given these projections, it appears that a retirement of 20 years or longer might be in your future.1,2
Are you prepared for a 20-year retirement?
How about a 30- or 40-year retirement? Don’t laugh; it could happen. The SSA projects that about 25% of today’s 65-year-olds will... Read More

By Kathleen Winsor-Games
NABBW’s Associate for Women and Work
The changing nature of work and the new American workplace have been reported on frequently over the past decade.
As women and Baby Boomers, we have moved from the expectation of having one or two jobs during the course of our lifetime to an uncertain landscape that our parents would scarcely recognize.
The economic and workplace shifts occurring during the decade have been cataclysmic, and many workers are still numbed by recent shockwaves as they attempt to adapt. For many Baby Boomers, retirement has been postponed and age discrimination... Read More

By Kathleen Winsor-Games
NABBW’s Associate for Women and Work
Are you in a hurry to find your next job or consulting gig?
Perhaps you were recently laid off, or the company you worked for these past 10 years closed its doors.
After a lengthy and successful tenure, you find yourself in the position of having to tell friends and strangers about your value to future employers.
As a woman who entered the job market at a time when we all expected to stay with the same company until retirement, you may be looking outside of your former employer’s doors at a startling new employment landscape... Read More

By Kathleen Winsor-Games
NABBW’s Associate for Women and Work
Is your career moving forward on a path of your choosing and in a fulfilling direction?
Have you begun to feel that your career is something that is happening to you, without your guidance or input? If it feels as though your career has gone into a sideways skid and you aren’t sure how to regain control, read on for sure signs of career drift and what you can do about it.
For us Baby Boomer Women, career drift can happen for a number of reasons:
We took time off to be full-time mothers, or worked only part-time until our children... Read More

Winning at Working: Incremental Actions Trump New Year’s Resolutions
By Nan Russell
NABBW’s Associate for Winning at Work
A recent study found that nearly half of us will make New Year’s resolutions in 2014, but only eight percent of us will reach or keep the promises we make for ourselves. Maybe that’s why I’m not a big fan of New Years resolutions.
Sure I’ve made dozens of them, all with good intentions and a bit of magical thinking, believing this time the resolution will stick. Maybe a few have, but generally these wishful self-promises end up broken. And when that happens my... Read More

By Dumont Gerken-Owen, PhD,
Certified Career Management Coach
NABBW’s Women and Work Expert
Would you rather eat a worm than create a personal career brand? In reality, developing a personal career brand doesn’t have to be torture because you are already living it.
The fact is, you don’t create a personal brand: You discover it. Simply said, think of your personal brand as the essence of whom you are and the unique attributes only you can bring to the table. The key to a powerful brand is understanding your authentic self- the values, passions, personality preferences, knowledge... Read More

Jumping Work-Hurdles
By Nan S. Russell
NABBW’s Winning At Work Expert
It feels great at the end of a workday to know you\’ve made progress on a mounting to-do list, resolved a persistent problem, dealt with a difficult challenge, or accomplished an important objective.
Yet, too often we get to the end of a day and haven\’t felt feelings of satisfaction, accomplishment, or progress at work, at least not as much as we\’d like. Instead, frustration, bureaucracy, and unresponsiveness creep in to thwart our well-being.
The days when frustration rules are difficult progress... Read More

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